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Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 5 days agoTheWrap offers a brief history lesson on Freedom Day, which commemorates the nation's full abolition of slavery and became a federal holiday just three...
What to know about Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday
CNN via AOL· 6 days agoDespite Juneteenth’s storied history, the holiday was largely overlooked by non-Black Americans...
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News· 6 days agoMany Americans have celebrated it annually for more than a century, even though the holiday was not...
The Juneteenth National Holiday is a Time to Remember
Native News Online via Yahoo News· 6 days agoPresident Joe Biden signed the legislation into law three years ago making Juneteenth a national ...
‘People have worked so hard.’ Woman who helped make Juneteenth a national holiday visits New Jersey
North Platte Telegraph· 6 days agoDr. Opal Lee, 97, was instrumental in getting Juneteenth declared a national holiday in 2021.
Juneteenth: How the US holiday is being celebrated
BBC via AOL· 6 days agoWhen he was senator for Illinois, Barack Obama co-sponsored legislation to make Juneteenth a national holiday, but the law was never ...
What's closed on Juneteenth 2024? What to know ahead of the holiday
Today· 6 days agoOn that date in 1865, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas to inform 250,000...
Map shows states where Juneteenth is recognized as a public holiday
Newsweek· 7 days agoJuneteenth National Independence Day was launched to celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S.—but...
What is Juneteenth? The beginner's guide to celebrating the federal holiday
First Coast News· 6 days agoFor more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black...
Juneteenth holiday: An important moment to contemplate our nation’s past and present
Louisiana Illuminator via Yahoo News· 6 days agoWhat in the world could they have been thinking? That’s one of the questions (or, at least, one...